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European broadcaster RTL Group has announced the integration of its digital video businesses United Screens and Divimove. The multiplatform networks (MPNs) will be merged under Berlin-based Divimove. The new Divimove will represent over 1,000 digital content creators in nine European countries.

Information and measurement company Nielsen has unveiled addressable initiative Nielsen Advanced Video Advertising after acquiring US addressable TV technology provider Sorenson Media for $11.3 million in a bankruptcy auction. The new initiative will combine Sorenson’s addressable capabilities with Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) technology, which Nielsen acquired through its 2017 purchase of Gracenote.

Comcast-owned NBCUniversal has announced plans for a hybrid online video service that will incorporate both an ad-supported tier and a consumer-paid subscription. Launching in the first quarter of 2020, the core target audience will be pay TV subscribers and Sky customers, meaning that the focus of the service is more of a “TV Everywhere” offer than a standalone direct to consumer subscription.

Viacom has revealed its intentions to go direct-to-consumer via the acquisition of ad-supported streaming service Pluto TV. The deal is worth a reported $340 million and will see Pluto TV operate as an independent subsidiary of Viacom. The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2019.

4K and UHD are much misused words that can mean a lot of different things depending on who you ask. This ebook examines the facts and figures behind the rise of 4K and UHD and provides new data and insights on the UHD global status, shipment forecasts and media consumption.

In the media management market, migration from selling equipment-based solutions to service-based solutions is deploying massively this year. Nearly two-thirds (62 percent) of global revenue was service-based, growing to 63 percent by the end of 2017 and expected to grow to 66 percent in 2021. The overall market grew 7 percent in 2016 and 5 percent in 2017, but this growth rate is expected to slow to 4 percent in 2021.

Comcast, the largest pay TV operator in the US, is set to offer a low cost ‘streaming cable’ pay TV service. The $15 per month service, Stream, will only be available to Comcast’s internet customers as the service uses the managed-IP part of Comcast’s cable infrastructure to deliver video and not the open internet.

Sony’s three month old online pay TV service, PlayStation Vue, will begin offering a limited a la carte offering in July.
Three individual channels will become available for subscription on a monthly basis, with out the need of a TV bundle from PlayStation Vue:
• Showtime priced at $10.99 per month ;
• Fox Soccer Channel for $14.99 per month;
• Machinima (an online gaming and video entertainment channel) for $3.99 per month.

Hulu has partnered with AT&T to bring its subscription service to AT&T customers. The deal builds upon AT&T’s existing agreement with Hulu for its free content and allows AT&T to resell Hulu Plus subscriptions to its customers through the AT&T website and AT&T-branded mobile apps.

US broadcaster CBS has jumped into the over-the-top game with the launch of a direct to consumer online subscription service, CBS All Access. The announcement comes a day after HBO announced plans to launch an over-the-top HBO Go service next year CBS All Access is available on CBS.com, iOS and Android devices.

Premium pay network HBO is set to go over-the-top (OTT) with a standalone HBO Go offering to become available in 2015 in the US. Announced at a Time Warner investor meeting by HBO CEO Richard Plepler, the service is aimed directly at the 80 million homes who do not subscribe to HBO, including 10 million broadband-only subscribers in the US.

HBO has achieved more than one million downloads of the mobile app offering access to HBO Go since its launch on 29 April. The mobile app is available on Apple's iPhones and iPads as well as Google's Android...